330M+
people speak French
French is an official language in 26 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. Most of the world's French speakers now live in Africa, where young, growing populations keep expanding the market.
Real-time and async French speech-to-text API that keeps up with how people actually talk. Handles regional accents, fast speech, and code-switching mid-sentence. Live in production in under a day.
We evaluated Gladia's Word Error Rate (WER) for French across various datasets.
Gladia's internal production dataset of real customer calls, annotated by humans.
Common Voice is a crowd-sourced dataset of volunteers reading aloud, across a wide range of accents and microphones.
FLEURS is a multilingual benchmark of read sentences, built to compare languages on the same content.
330M+
French is an official language in 26 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. Most of the world's French speakers now live in Africa, where young, growing populations keep expanding the market.
Supporting French lets you serve customers in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Quebec, and reach growing Francophone markets from Dakar to Kinshasa, with one product instead of a patchwork of regional ones.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows French speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, French shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
Teams spread across Paris, Montreal, and Abidjan meet in French with very different accents, so notes need to keep every speaker's words intact.
Meeting assistants →Offshore contact centers in Morocco, Tunisia, and Madagascar handle French support for European brands, at volumes QA teams can't review manually.
CCaaS →Callers in Belgium and Switzerland say septante and nonante where France says soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix, so voice agents must catch every number.
Voice agents →French TV, film, and podcasts reach audiences from Quebec to Senegal, and creators need subtitles that work across very different accents.
Media →Supported languages
Being multilingual has been our priority since day one. Gladia supports 100 languages, with code-switching and automatic language detection integrated into all models by default.
Ship French voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
